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Comment on Ask HN: Would issue “bounties” make contributing to open source more appealing?

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Why not just hire a contractor?

Yeah thats exactly what we were thinking of doing...And then as we were sending them the "contract" it turned out we were effectively just linking to github issues...

So then I thought "How have I never seen a github issue where someone just puts in the issue 'I'll pay you X to do this'"?

How have I never seen a github issue where someone just puts in the issue 'I'll pay you X to do this'

Here’s an example of that, kind of: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/109

There was https://www.bountysource.com/ but IIRC they lost some goodwill a couple years ago due to some shenanigans that I don't remember the details of.

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